Disclosure of Financial Relationships

As the accredited provider, Des Moines University (DMU) is committed to ensuring that accredited continuing education (1) presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations and (2) protects learners from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. DMU is responsible for identifying financial relationships between individuals in control of educational content and ineligible companies and managing them to ensure they do not introduce commercial bias.

Financial relationships of any dollar amount are defined as relevant if the educational content is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) defines an ineligible company as an organization “whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients." The ACCME does not consider clinical service providers directly to patients as ineligible companies. Ineligible companies are prohibited from engaging in joint providership with accredited providers.

DMU must collect information from all planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content about all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. There is no minimum monetary threshold; individuals must disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies regardless of the amount. Individuals must disclose, irrespective of their view the relevance of the relationship to education. Any individual who refuses to disclose relevant financial relationships will be disqualified from developing, managing, presenting, or evaluating the activity. The disclosure intends not to prevent an individual from being involved in a continuing education activity but to provide learners with information to make judgments. This disclosure policy is intended to protect all parties involved from any potential conflict of interest that may arise.

DISCLOSURE

The speaker(s) will disclose if any pharmaceuticals, medical procedures, and devices discussed are investigational or unapproved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The determination of educational content and the selection of speakers is the responsibility of the activity director. 

Relevant to the content of this educational activity, the following individual(s) have no conflict(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

  • Ali Khalifeh, MD - Associate Medical Director and Moderator
  • Andrew Hoel, MD - Associate Medical Director
  • Angela Churilla - Activity Coordinator
  • Ankur Chandra, MD - Medical Director and Moderator
  • Ashlee Fletcher - Data Manager
  • Ashley Gutwein, MD - Associate Medical Director and Moderator
  • Ashley Vavra, MD, MS - Medical Director, Moderator, and Speaker
  • Ashley Verhyen, MSN, RN - Data Manager
  • Benjamin Jacobs, MD - Associate Medical Director and Moderator
  • Bethany Taylor, RT ® - Data Manager
  • Betsy Wymer, DNP, RN, CV-BC - Director of Quality and Speaker
  • Brooke Dolacky, RT ®,RCES - Data Manager
  • Carlos Moreno - Data Manager
  • Caroline Morgan, RN - Speaker
  • Carrie Cornett, RN - Data Manager
  • Charles Briggs, MD - Associate Medical Director
  • Eleftherios S. Xenos, MD, PhD, RVT, FACS - Medical Director and Moderator 
  • Elizabeth Schwendler - Data Manager
  • Faisal Aziz, MD, FACS - Medical Director and Moderator
  • Igor Laskowski, MD, PhD - Associate Medical Director 
  • James Wadzinsk - Planning Committee Member
  • Jeffrey J. Siracuse, MD, MBA - Medical Director
  • Jennifer Correa - Activity Coordinator
  • Jennifer Farrell, RN - Data Manager
  • Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, MD, FACS - Activity Coordinator, Moderator, and Speaker
  • Joseph Hart, MD, MHL, FACS, DFSVS - Medical Director
  • Joseph Sabat, MD, PhD - Associate Medical Director and Moderator
  • Julia D. Glaser, MD, FACS - Associate Medical Director
  • Julie Mason, RVT - Data Manager
  • Kendra Smith, RN, MSN, RCIS - Data Manager
  • Kirsten Dansey - Associate Medical Director
  • Kristina Giles, MD - Associate Medical Director 
  • Lynne Hampton, RN - Activity Coordinator
  • Mary Wanzek, RN - Data Manager
  • Maureen Polensky, RN, BSN - Data Manager
  • Melinda Lewis, RN - Data Manager and Speaker
  • Melissa Latus, RN - Moderator 
  • Michael Madigan, MD - Medical Director
  • Michael M. McNally, MD, FACS - Medical Director
  • Mohammad Eslami, MD, MPH, MBA - Moderator
  • Momodou Jammeh, MD - Medical Director
  • Nancy Condon, RN - Data Manager
  • Naomi Eisenberg, PT, MEd, CCRP - Data Manager
  • Patty Bozeman, APRN - Data Manager
  • Paul White, MD - Medical Director and Moderator
  • Rachelle Sapp, RN - Data Manager
  • Renee Palmer, RN - Data Manager
  • Robin Acino, MPH - Data Manager
  • Samantha Minc, MD, MPH, FACS - Speaker
  • Sheila Coogan, MD, FACS - Medical Director
  • Stacey Esposito, RN - Data Manager
  • Tracy Campin, BSN, RN - Data Manager
  • Yaasin Abdulrehman, MD - Medical Director and Moderator
  • Young Erben, MD, FACS - Medical Director

Relevant to the content of this educational activity, the following individual(s) have conflict(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. The accredited provider has mitigated all relationships.

  • Emily Malgor, MD - Medical Director
    • Medical Advisory Board: Boston Scientific
    • Consultant: Abbott
    • The financial relationship is not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Gregory Magee, MD - Associate Medical Director
    • Consultant: W. L. Gore & Associates, Cook Medical, Silk Road, Humacyte, Medtronic
    • The financial relationship is not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Katharine McGinigle, MD, MPH - Medical Director
    • Grant or Research Support: Novo Nordisk Foundation
    • Speaker’s Bureau: Shockwave Medical, Inc and Penumbra
    • The financial relationship is not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Kenton Rommens, MD, FRCSC - Associate Medical Director and Moderator
    • Consultant: W. L. Gore & Associates and Terumo Aortic
    • The financial relationship is not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Meghan Dermody, MD - Speaker
    • Honoraria: Medtronic
    • Consultant: Silk Road Medical
    • The financial relationship is relevant to the content of the educational activity.
    • Does not intend to discuss an off-label use of a commercial product(s)/device(s).
  • Michael Stoner, MD, RVT, FACS - Medical Director and Moderator 
    • Consultant: SilkRoad Medical
    • The financial relationship is not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Misty Humphries, MD - Associate Medical Director 
    • Consultant: Boston Scientific, Shockwave Medical
    • The financial relationship is not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Rana Afifi, MD - Associate Medical Director
    • Consultant: Medtronic, Endoron Ltd
    • The financial relationship is not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Sara Zettervall, MD, MPH - Medical Director, Moderator, and Speaker
    • Consultant: W. L. Gore & Associates
    • The financial relationship is not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Sharon C. Kiang, MD, FACS, FSVS, RPVI - Speaker
    • Honorarium: W. L. Gore & Associates
    • The financial relationship is not relevant to the content of the educational activity.
  • Shipra Arya, MD, SM, FACS - Medical Director
    • Consultant: W. L. Gore & Associates
    • The financial relationship is not relevant to the content of the educational activity.